Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 2 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 3 | With this foundation a student usually has a choice of two , or maybe three , subjects to pursue to degree standard , and can make that choice on the basis of experience . |
| 4 | Anyone could make that mistake in the urgency of a business flight , yet the airline concerned must pay the Government for that . |
| 5 | He proved that he could make that journey on a primitive craft . |
| 6 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 7 | In his own interests the licence-holder , when structural alterations have been completed in compliance with an order , should intimate that fact to the clerk to the licensing board . |
| 8 | But if this relationship is poor , the damage done may adversely affect that child for the rest of his days . |
| 9 | is gon na build that factory at the back |
| 10 | A similar view appears to be taken by Lord Fraser of Tullybelton in the Rank case [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 , 446D ’ — where he said : ‘ A restriction by the court making the order would , no doubt , be effective to bind the party who obtained the order … ’ — ‘ ( d ) Since the decision of the House of Lords in Attorney-General v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 191 it is to be taken as settled law that it is a contempt of court , as constituting an interference with the course of justice , for anyone , whether a party to the action or not , knowingly to thwart or subvert that purpose of an order of the court . |
| 11 | Well you 've got some number in there , so what do you want , you want that number to a power , to the power of one tenth . |
| 12 | So you need to anticipate and absorb each wave with the legs ( which act as shock absorbers ) . |
| 13 | This is a most satisfying stunt when you can make each half of the eight equal in diameter . |
| 14 | One the first flush of passion is over , sex often seems to become infrequent , not because you do n't fancy each other , but because you do n't fancy each other at the same times . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 16 | ‘ About what they 'd eat that evening in the restaurant and what wines they 'd drink . |
| 17 | That principle might be formulated as follows : if A tells B ( by words or conduct ) that B need not perform a contractual ( or other ) obligation owed by B to A and B takes A at his word and does not perform that obligation , A can not treat that non-performance as a breach of contract entitling him to damages or to terminate the contract . |
| 18 | Then work out a way that you can attain that goal over a period of time . |
| 19 | The artist would reproduce that grid onto a studio canvas in a proportionately larger scale , using it as a sequence of reference points by which to plot and paint up the landscape configuration exactly to the Design drawing . |
| 20 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 21 | The process of becoming successful makes it impossible for fans and the band to visualise and treat each other in the same way . |
| 22 | ‘ A shrewd student of character ’ , he would ‘ treat each person as an individual , possessed of his own peculiar strengths and weaknesses . ’ |
| 23 | Ideally , you should treat each child as an individual , with his own list of words to be learnt ; but that 's impossible when you have another thirty children in the class . |
| 24 | No public librarian , for instance , can regard each item on the fiction shelves as an equal unit , to be discarded if its rate of use falls below the average rate for the entire stock . |
| 25 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 26 | The new machine is reliant on an up-to-date design studio using C.A.D. ( Computer Aided Design ) techniques that can reproduce each design onto a floppy disk . |
| 27 | It is also important that the physiotherapist should explain each part of the rehabilitation process to you the carer , teach you how you can help , and guide both you and the patient through each stage ( and any setbacks ) . |
| 28 | Now we can customise each side of the scissors by editing the points that define the curve . |
| 29 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |
| 30 | Although this is a somewhat oversimplified distinction , it is nevertheless significant that rural agitation during the late nineteenth century took the form of trade union organization ( under Joseph Arch ) in the South and East , whereas unionism could make little headway in the North and West . |